Pat McSweeney For people in Shreveport, Louisiana, Christian Service (CS) represents different things. ...

John Hulden This column was adapted from a sermon preached by John Hulden at Trinity Lutheran Church in Moorhead, Minnesota, on ...

Valerie Schultz The hardest mothering of all is to give your children their own existence. My daughters sp ...

Carol Fennelly If I had to choose one word to describe my friend Buddy Gray, it would be relentless. He was an advocate on behalf of ...

Ed Spivey Jr. The phone call came as it does to many parents at some point in the growing-up years of their children. Colleen had fallen o ...

Cynthia J. Martens Death sucks." Five years ago this was the opening of a eulogy by a minister for a mutual friend who died tragicall ...

The Editors  At home, the best-known of Sojourners' Washington, D.C.-based ministries is the Sojourners Neighborhood Center, ...

Barbara Tamialis One day in early May I left Sojourners Neighborhood Center for about an hour to run to the post office and the ba ...

Monica Kennedy I am going to begin this story, in a sense, where it ended, and where it will never end. I am g ...

Marcy Porter Nights are the worst. I toss and turn, seeking a blessed relief from consciousness that seems to come only at dawn. Sometime ...

Julienne Gage Tiesha became nervous as Ann and I took her trick or treating through Columbia Heights. "I hope they don't shoot ...

David A. Wade Every year, at our family reunion, one more seat of memories and laughter is empty. Every year ...

Ron Green "The door is locked! "The door is locked! Why won't they unlock the door and let me ...

Karen Lattea When I tell people I live in Washington, D.C., a common reply is, "I'm sorry to hear that." When a former D.C ...

Cynthia J. Carney About five years ago, when my husband and I were hosting a gathering from our parish, a member of the group made a comm ...

Marybeth Shea I cut my political teeth on United Farm Worker grape boycotts in California's San Joaquin Valley. ...

Marybeth Shea I guess I am doin' all right. I'm studyin', and like the teacher says, it pays off. ...

Jonathan R. Anderson As I yelled at Melissa and Gabriel for disobeying, a terrible contradiction flashed before me, but I beat it down, in ...

Marybeth Shea In 1974, my family moved from Great Falls, Montana, to Visalia, California. All moves are difficult, but this one—falling be ...

Andrea Ayvazian Welcome to the 40s," a friend said to me on my birthday two years ago, "the old age of youth and the youth of ol ...

Marybeth Shea Summer campfires and sing-alongs aside, the history of God's people is written twice: Once in documents beginning with ...

Sally Schreiner I recently attended a retreat focusing on "Journeying With Jesus in Our Singleness." The 14 women in attendance ...

Marybeth Shea If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. —Chinese Proverb If I keep a gr ...